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EA SPORTS Football Club Season Round-Up: 13 November

Our office is awash with spreadsheets and exhausted statisticians, but thankfully we can present the winners and losers of the last season of EA SPORTS Football Club.

Big clubs doing well: While it's true some of the clubs with a large FIFA 12 fan following are struggling in the lower leagues, we also have a number of big clubs (with over 25,000 acknowledged fans in the game) doing very nicely thank you and sitting happily in the top league in their respective countries, such as: Borussia Dortmund, Juventus, Rangers, Ajax, Chicago Fire and Celtic.

League Champions: Season 6 November to 13 November

English Premier League: Barnet (NEW)

La Liga: Real Valladolid (NEW)

Bundesliga: FSV Frankfurt (unchanged)

Serie A: Ascoli (unchanged)

Ligue 1: En Avant Guingamp (NEW)

Scottish Premier League: Dundee United (NEW)

Belgium Jupiler Pro League: Anderlecht (NEW)

MLS: Seattle Sounders (NEW)

Superliga (Denmark): Odense Boldklub (NEW)

Brazil Campeonato Brasileiro: Bahia (unchanged)

Holland Eredivisie: VVV-Venlo (NEW)

Serie B (Italy): Vicenza (NEW)

Norway Tippeligaen: Molde FK (NEW)

Spain Segunda A: CD Numancia (NEW)

Sweden Allsvenskan: Syrianska FC (unchanged)

Republic of Ireland Airtricity League: Drogheda United (NEW)

Poland Ekstraklasa: KS ód (unchanged)

Russia Premier League: Lokomotiv Moskva (unchanged)

Switzerland Super League: Neuchâtel Xamax (NEW)

Portugal Liga SAGRES: Vitória Guimarães (NEW)

Mexico Primera Division: Monterrey (NEW)

Australia Hyundai A-League: Wellington Phoenix (unchanged)

Notable relegations/promotions

BOTH Milan clubs relegated out of Serie A

Leyton Orient promoted to the English Premier League!

Vicenza promoted to Serie B

Olympique de Marseille although ranked 10th in our most-supported clubs, relegated out of French Ligue 1

Of the current top three in the real-world English Premier League...

Manchester City… stay in the Championship, just missing out on promotion in fourth spot.

Manchester United… stay in npower League 2

Newcastle relegated to the npower League 2 – after being relegated to League 1 just last week!

Lowest number of fans but still CHAMPIONS!

Sangju Sangmu Phoenix FC in Korea K-League (1) with 55 fans

Drogheda United in Rep. Ireland Airtricity League (1) with 90 fans

Ascoli in Serie A with 113 fans

Top TEN teams according to fans

Man United - 394,712 >> 406, 635

FC Barcelona - 271,350 >> 283,975

Arsenal - 268,135 >> 280, 569

Real Madrid - 229,524 >> 241,056

Liverpool - 191,666 >> 197,298

Chelsea - 163,740 >> 169,233

Bayern Munich - 103,439 >> 106,879

Manchester City - 75,509 >> 80,312

AC Milan - 68,077 >> 71,142

Olympique de Marseille - 66,777 >> 69,330

How do Seasons work in EA SPORTS Football Club?

You choose a club to support when you first load up FIFA 12. Everything you do, whatever team you play as, gains you XP that goes towards your chosen club. We tot up the daily totals to give us a weekly figure - a week is a Season in Football Club. Bingo bango - you have yourself a league table. Read more about EA SPORTS Football Club.